Wincent Quotes & Sayings

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything. — Gustav Mahler

Of course I want to kill you," said Skulduggery. "I want to kill most people. But then where would I be? In a field of dead people with no one to talk to. — Derek Landy

Beware the Sunday-morning faith that may get you through the week but not in heaven! — Mike Bryan

We ourselves are the last to notice that we are not making any headway. It is brought to our notice from the outside; former students suddenly emerge as our superiors. As we grow older, the respect we receive diminishes: the disproportion between our age and our position becomes evident, first to other people and finally to ourselves. Then it is time to retreat. — Ernst Junger

Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I may not be strong, but I am fierce — Jeff King

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it. — Diana Vreeland

Sometimes he finds out he believes something that he doesn't even know he believed until it exits his mouth — David Foster Wallace

You know how diamonds - how all crystals - grow, Laurette? By adding microscopic layers, a few thousand atoms every month, each atop the next. Millennia after millennia. That's how stories accumulate too. All the old stones accumulate stories. That little rock you're so curious about may have seen Alaric sack Rome; it may have glittered in the eyes of Pharaohs. Scythian queens might have danced all night wearing — Anonymous

Some are born for peace and joy
Some are born for sorrow
But only for a day as we
Shall not be here tomorrow — Stevie Smith